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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Congress Targets Partnership Disguised Sales and Services

Both the House’s and Senate’s budget bills would clarify that certain rules applicable to disguised payments for services and disguised sales of property between a partner and a partnership under Section 707(a)(2) are...more

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Substantiating the Right to Claim QSBS Tax Benefits | Part 1

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Section 1202 provides an exclusion from capital gains when a stockholder sells qualified small business stock (QSBS), assuming all eligibility requirements are satisfied. Section 1045 provides for the tax-free rollover of...more

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The Tax Court in Soroban Holds that Limited Partners Were Too Active To Be Treated As “Limited Partners” and are Subject to...

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On May 28, 2025, in Soroban Capital Partners LP v. Commissioner (T.C. Memo 2025-52) (“Soroban II”), the Tax Court held the active role of limited partners in a fund manager caused them to fail to qualify as “limited partners”...more

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U.S. Tax Court Issues Ruling on Self-Employment Tax Exception for Limited Partners

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On Wednesday, May 28, the U.S. Tax Court ruled in Soroban Capital Partners LP v. Commissioner that a "functional analysis" test applies when determining whether a limited partner who contributes services to a partnership may...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Tax Court’s Decision in Soroban—Potential SECA Tax Implications for Management Fee Income

On May 28, 2025, the U.S. Tax Court issued its decision in Soroban Capital Partners LP v. Commissioner (T.C. Memo 2025-52) (“Soroban”), holding that “limited partners” of a management company organized as a Delaware limited...more

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The Limited Partner Exclusion From Self-Employment Tax – But Who Is A Limited Partner?

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An Agency Under Siege - The mission statement of the IRS reminds taxpayers that it is their responsibility to understand and meet their tax obligations, while it is the role of the IRS to “enforce the [tax] law with...more

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U.S. Tax Court Rules That Limited Partners of an Investment Manager Are Subject to Self-Employment Tax

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On May 28, 2025, the United States Tax Court held that the limited partners of a limited partnership providing investment management services to various investment funds were not limited partners within the meaning of...more

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Soroban: An Update After US Tax Court Ruling

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On May 28, 2025, the US Tax Court ruled that investment manager limited partners in Soroban Capital Partners were active limited partners and, as such, were ineligible for the limited partner exception to self-employment...more

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Terminating a Trust? Don’t Forget to Consider This Tax Issue

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Every conveyance of property or of an interest in property from one person to another is prompted, or at least influenced, by economic considerations. The parties to the transaction may swap properties, or one party may...more

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IRS Withdraws Reporting Requirements for Certain Basis-Shifting Transactions

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On April 17, 2025, the IRS issued Notice 2025-23, which announced its intent to publish a notice of proposed rulemaking to remove Treasury Regulations Section 1.6011-18 that identifies certain partnership basis adjustment...more

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A Priceless Mistake: How Faulty Appraisals Can Undermine Charitable Tax Deductions

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A recent US Tax Court case (WT Art P’ship LP v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2025-30) illustrates how failing to comply with the technical requirements for substantiating the value of charitable contributions can jeopardize a...more

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Transferring the Family Business To A Private Foundation? Are You Sure About That?

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Charitable organizations are dependent, in no small part, upon the financial support of many successful business owners. The generosity of these individuals and their organizations may be a manifestation of several factors...more

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Are Wages for Research Credit Purposes Limited to “Reasonableness?”

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Smith v. Commissioner, a pending research credit case in the United States Tax Court, presents an issue of first impression: Is a partner’s self-employment income in a partnership allowable as a qualified research expense...more

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Accountants Advising on Ownership Structure

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An Accountant based in Atlanta, Georgia provided valuable advice to a new Client who was starting a kitchen design business with a business partner....more

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Newly Released Final Regulations on Partnership Basis-Shifting Transactions

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On January 10, 2025, the United States Internal Revenue Service (the "IRS") released final regulations (the "Final Regulations") under section 6011 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), that identify...more

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Better Late Than Never - The IRS Issues Final Regulations on the Allocation of Recourse Partnership Liabilities After More Than a...

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On November 29, 2024, the United States Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) released final regulations (Final Regulations) relating to the allocation of recourse partnership liabilities under section 752 of the Internal...more

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Final Regulations Issued for Certain Partnership Related Party Basis Adjustment Transactions

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On January 10, 2025, the Treasury Department and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) released final regulations (the “regulations”) classifying certain partnership related party basis adjustment transactions and...more

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IRS Issues Final Partnership Basis Shifting Regulations

On January 10, 2025, the Treasury and IRS issued final regulations identifying certain partnership related party “basis shifting” transactions and substantially similar transactions as transactions of interest (TOIs), which...more

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Final Regulations Issued on Allocation of Partnership Liabilities Under Section 752

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On December 2, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) and the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) published final regulations (the “Final Regulations”) on section 752 regarding the allocation of partnership...more

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Receiving Debt-Financed Distributions From a QOF: IRS Allows Significant Flexibility (And Some Traps)

Qualified Opportunity Funds (QOFs) offer generous tax incentives but are bound by a complicated set of rules, not to mention the complexity of Subchapter K of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), as QOFs are typically organized...more

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Not Aware of Your Business Partner’s Tax Situation? Maybe You Should Be

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If you’ve worked with the owners of closely held businesses for even just a few years, you have realized they are only half joking when they complain about having the government as a partner. Consider how much federal, state,...more

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[Event] 2025 Winter Tax Forum - February 6th, Richmond, VA

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Join Williams Mullen for our hybrid 2025 Winter Tax Forum on Thursday, February 6th. Our speakers, Anna Derewenda, Kyle Wingfield, Kevin Bender, and Patrick Carr will provide an update on the following: - New Basis...more

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Expiring Federal Transfer Tax Benefits – Nothing is Certain or Lasts Forever

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Just a few weeks ago, many individual taxpayers, driven by what they viewed as the relatively imminent expiration of the enhanced federal transfer tax exemptions, sought advice on how to leverage their remaining exemption and...more

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Final Regulations Released for Partnership Recourse Liabilities

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On December 2, 2024, the Department of Treasury published final regulations (Final Regulations) governing the allocation of recourse liabilities of a partnership among its partners under Section 752 of the Internal Revenue...more

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Know Your Rights: Managing Exposure During Audits Through Legal Representation

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The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (the “IRA”) allocated $80 billion in funding to the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), much of which was earmarked for increased enforcement efforts. After some starts and stops, that funding...more

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